so. yeah. i don’t have a regular blog post tonight. but i do have some poetry. i know … *groan*. but this? this is important to me. and long. and to any of you who have suffered abuse by the hand of someone who says “i love you” you’ll get this. addiction often lends itself [...]
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how important is it anyway – or – dancing with the sixth and seventh steps.
One of the best phrases heard at a couple decades worth of meetings… “If it doesn’t directly affect your breathing then it’s none of your business.” Oh how this rings true for this sober sometimes sassy girl. So easy to get caught up in life’s drama. He said, she said, they said, it said. (It? [...]
the “MEAN”
Yesterday was an odd day. I was going to write about a slogan or something ‘rote’ straight from the recovery toolbag, but as usual I need to write about the things that are happening right now. I mean that’s what recovery is about yes? Learning to be clean/sober and most of all ‘right minded’ through [...]
Emotional Intelligence, Inside my Mind
success???
Like most people, I tend to stick with what I know. What I’ve experienced. What is comfortable. Even if it doesn’t look comfortable from the outside. Matter of fact sometimes our lives (my life) can look like one big case study in psychosis based on past history. But it’s SAFE. To me anyway. Been down [...]
defining insanity …
As my good pal and a personal hero, Al Einstein said, “The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results”. This goes in the annals of recovery phrase-isms as well … keep drinking/using and expecting somehow-someway-somewhere it’s going to get better. Using every superhuman power at our [...]
Emotional Intelligence, How do I DO this stuff?
present-ly speaking…
I saw an epic quote the other day. Of course I can’t remember it verbatim but the gist was something like this… We’re always waiting for the next big thing to happen or to ‘get over’ whatever problem we’re having now. Thinking that when ‘this or that’ happens life will really take off. What we [...]
finger on the triggers
It happens without our even knowing. An event, person, word, gesture, object. Situation, during which some internal button is stomped on, leaving us frazzled and worn and nervous and in some cases – wanting to use … bad. I’ve heard of times where people who are seemingly just “fine”, get a switch flipped and aren’t [...]
Let it go already …
Let go and let God. (whatever your conception of that may be of course) I prefer to keep the G sound out of the equation. let OD (implied second D). It fits me. But when talking of the more healthful, rational members of our worldwide recovery family, bring on the G. What does letting go [...]
19 or ‘for the newcomer’
I had some free time (which almost NEVER happens these days) so I played around at In The Rooms for a bit late night. Hopped into the chat room, knew hardly anyone which is awesome. I love being the new person. I do. I know I’m weird. Totally dig the feeling of meeting people, introductions [...]
grieving
Grief. Common theme of this side show we call life. Be it death or loss or change, grieving (or refusal to do so) impacts us all in ways we may not even imagine. The idea of the “process” of grieving was an idea formulated succinctly by Elizabeth Kubler Ross in On Death and Dying (1969). [...]
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